Southern Storm: Sherman's March to the Sea
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“Is this the rear guard”: Ibid.
“boys, make you some coffee”: Ward, Diary, IHS.
“I…took up”: OR 44:364.
“put about 100”: National Tribune, 11/26/1903.
“By the side”: 92nd Illinois Volunteers, 186–87.
“Colonel, you are disgracing”: Ibid.
“night was fast”: OR 44:409.
“Reaching the open”: Confederate Veteran, 11:354.
“with great fierceness”: Miller, “We Scattered,” 45.
“they made charge”: National Tribune, 2/25/1904.
“shot in seven”: Berkenes, Private William Boddy, 155.
“The rebels seemed”: National Tribune, 11/26/1903.
“We fought General Kilpatrick”: OR 44:910.
“It was a night”: National Tribune, 5/17/1883.
“We are very tired”: Ward, Diary, IHS.
“It proved to be”: Angle, Three Years, 331.
“saw the line of blue”: Ibid., 332.
“This is one of the times”: Johnson, “March to the Sea,” 324.
“I can assure you”: National Tribune, 11/26/1903.
“about one day’s march”: OR 44:9.
“learn definitely”: OR 44:572.
“pacing to and fro”: Cryder and Stanley, “War for the Union,” 460.
“Yes, it is very good land”: Christie, Family Papers, MHS.
“been brought up”/“Please, Sir”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 114–15.
“bare feet in slippers”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 112–13.
“The country from Atlanta”: Belknap, Fifteenth Regiment, 413.
“All day in an awful”: Reminiscences of the Civil War, 160.
“Trees tall and stately”: Hubert, Fiftieth Regiment, 326.
“Only saw three houses”: Platter, “Civil War Diary,” UGA.
“Poor people live here”: Scheel, Rain, Mud & Swamps, 469.
“found the refugees’”: Corbin, Star for Patriotism, 160.
“got 60 horses”: Unknown Diarist, SHI.
“It was more of a shock”: Hubert, History of the Fiftieth Regiment, 326.
“Had to make right angle”: Burton, Diary, EU.
“Our course is marked”: Dunkelman and Winey, Hardtack Regiment, 127.
“The marching by the side”: Storrow, Papers, MAS.
“Burned it”: Morgan, Diary, MHI.
“Hung an old man”: Trego, Diary, CHI.
“It is really heart-rending”: Winkler, Letters, 10.
“But as we were filling”: Ladd, “From Atlanta to the Sea,” 9.
“Col. [James W.] Langley”: Ross, Diary, ALL.
“is just now playing”: Porter, Diary, OHS.
“about December 1”: OR 39/3:740.
“Every place we come to”: Brockman, “John Van Duser Diary,” 229–30.
“There are not many rebels”: Rosenow, Pen Pictures, 107.
“As we filed up the road”/“all shot through the head”: Ross, Diary, ALL.
“foragers are circumscribed”: OR 44:582.
“Any quantity of forage”: Hapeman, Diary, ALL.
“The negroes had a grand jubilee”: Calkins, One Hundred and Fourth Regiment, 265.
“Thousands of colored people”: Morhous, Reminiscences, 141.
“Supposed to be”: Morrow, Diary, MHI.
“roads a complete wilderness”: Scheel, Rain, Mud & Swamps, 469.
“during that whole distance”: Platter, “Civil War Diary,” UGA.
“This is the first music”: Reminiscences of the Civil War, 161.
“Have to make our roads”: Keyes, Diary, MHI.
“The sloughs are called creeks”: Jackson, Colonel’s Diary, 167.
“The roads are desperate”: Ambrose, Seventh Regiment, 281.
“Listen Miss Sue”: Sample plantation incident in Jones, When Sherman Came, 46–47.
“The railroad bridge”: Hickenlooper, Collection, CIN.
“wagons, footmen and horsemen”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 117.
Johnny Wells: Ibid., 119; Nichols, Story of the Great March, 74–75; Brockman, “John Van Duser Diary,” 229.
“in case you hear”: OR 44:581.
“within three miles of Millen”: OR 44:578.
“crossing by light of fires”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 118.
“A novel and vivid sight”: Quoted in New York Times, 12/23/1864.
CHAPTER 18. “GIVE THOSE FELLOWS A START”
“in the direction of Augusta”: OR 44:9.
“to cover the movements”: OR 44:364.
“The General pointed”: Angle, Three Years, 333–34.
“Sherman didn’t know”: Ibid., 334.
“fought us”: Ward, Diary, IHS.
“nothing save bulldog fighting”: OR 44:385.
“We then moved rapidly”: OR 44:598.
“Here, I’ll give this to you”: Quoted in Durden, History, 77.
“What kind of folks”: Jones, When Sherman Came, 49–59.
“Broke camp at 7”: Jamison, Recollections, 282.
“The rail was of”: Hedley, Marching through Georgia, 320.
“heated in the middle”: Fultz, “History of Company D,” 76.
“The practice of indiscriminate”: OR 44:596.
“On the 1st”: Canfield, 21st Regiment, 176.
“Rebels…captured”: Clark Diaries, LHS.
“numbering thirty-two”: OR 44:172.
“said to be”: Lybarger, Leaves, 2.
“Come, Come, Come”: Morrow, Diary, MHI.
“This was a busy day”: Trimble, Ninety-Third Regiment, 148.
“We…have to wade”: Schaum, Diary, DU.
“substantially parallel to”: OR 44:84.
“American scorpions”: Saunier, History, 358.
“the foragers coming in”: Unknown Diarist, in Sherman Papers, LOC.
“The beds were torn”: Sample plantation incidents in Jones, When Sherman Came, 46–47.
“with great caution”: OR 44:593.
“cover the enemy’s front”: OR 44:916.
“took the trouble”: Brockman, “John Van Duser Diary,” 229.
“sick in bed”/“rather hang-dog”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 124–25.
“have been entirely satisfactory”: OR 44:601.
“well together”: Jackson, Colonel’s Diary, 167.
“men across the creek”/“We would set a hive”: Jackson, Colonel’s Diary, 168.
“Some of the boys”: Cryder and Stanley, “War for the Union,” 460.
“The railroad”: Lybarger, Leaves, 2.
“We had to wade”: Schweitzer, Diary, MHI.
“The roads very bad”: Osborn, Diary, MHI.
“What is the news?”: Lonergan telegraph incident in OR 44:604.
“While soul stirring music”: Burton, Diary, EU.
“We now considered”: Widney foraging incident in National Tribune, 3/20/1902.
“Commenced skirmishing”/“our movement was slow”: Angle, Three Years, 336, 337.
“We have had sharp”: Ward Diary, IHS.
“a lively, rollicking”: Angle, Three Years, 339.
“We made them fly”: Eisenhower, Diary, MHI.
“He also told us”: Angle, Three Years, 339.
“If we get any communication”: Angle, Three Years, 339.
“No, Sir”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 128.
“continue to march”: OR 44:609.
“The fewer the men”: OR 44:602.
“would cut my rear”: OR 53:35.
“There we must cross”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 136.
“the whole army”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:193.
“There was a forage party”: Glossbrenner, Diary, MHI.
“He was buried”: Duke, Fifty-third Regiment, 166.
“how terrible the sweep”: Ambrose, Seventh Regiment, 282.
“At Millen”: Wescott, Papers, WHS.
“Broke camp
at daylight”: Jamison, Recollections, 284.
“Having stacked arms”: Grunert, History, 139.
“Visited the Stockades”: Storrow, Papers, MAS.
“The prisoners were compelled”: Potter, Reminiscences, 114.
“The huts were built”: Bradley, Star Corps, 203.
“There was not a soul”: Bauer, Soldiering, 193–94.
“We saw one”: Hoerner, Chattanooga, Savannah and Alexandria, 41.
“We found the bodies”: Anderson, They Died, 238–39.
“was to make the”: Jackson, Colonel’s Diary, 169.
“Got lost”: Emmons, Diaries, UIA.
“Moved at 6 A.M.”: Reeve, Papers, WHS.
“In a raw state”: Otto, “Civil War Memoirs,” WHS.
“While crossing the pontoon”: McAdams, Every-day Soldier Life, 121.
“can do nothing”: Quoted in Hughes and Whitney, Jefferson Davis in Blue, 157.
“Nothing could induce”: Quincy Daily Whig & Republican, 1/6/1865.
“were left on the wrong side”: OR 44:184.
“very plain”: Jackson, Colonel’s Diary, 169.
“most incomprehensible”: Pittenger, Diary, OHS.
“At Millen I learned”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:193.
“are to move up”: Angle, Three Years, 343.
“to send surplus”: OR 44:364.
“Roads good generally”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 137.
“passed ‘Uncle Billy’”: Jamison, Recollections, 285.
“was fordable above us”/“Skirmishing began”: OR 53:35–36.
“must have seen”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:193.
“exhausted but lively”: Force, Papers, UWA.
“on a large plantation”: National Tribune, 6/6/1901.
“We could see the smoke”: Roe, Papers, KNX.
“Almost all of the people”: Kellogg, Army Life, 331.
“Went into camp”: Gay, Diary, SHI.
“kept wrathfully blackguarding”: Fifty-fifth Regiment, 395.
“They loaded their wagons”: Quoted in Brannen, Life in Old Bulloch, 51–52.
“bought used coffee”: Ibid., 51.
“swamp, swampy, swampier”: Parmater, Diary, OHS.
“found roads or ground”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.
“teams at bad holes”/“The crackers”: Byrne, Uncommon Soldiers, 279.
“overflowed the road”: Kittinger, Diary, MHI.
“swelling at so rapid”: Grunert, History, 141.
“Everyone wet”: Byrne Diary and Journal, RU.
“We have not”: Bradley, Star Corps, 204.
“A large number present”: Ames, Diary, MHI.
“burning the ties”/“a very poor country”: OR 44:172.
“No forage”: Holmes, 52d O.V.I., 18.
“Rebs make their appearance”: Clark, Diaries, LHS.
“too much demoralized”: OR 44:409.
“After some parleying:” Angle, Three Years, 345.
“General Kilpatrick”: Hunter, Eighty-second Indiana, 140.
“to prepare for a fight”: National Tribune, 12/8/1887.
“So many cavalry in line”: Angle, Three Years, 345.
“in order to accomplish”: OR 44:618.
“a splendid defensive position”: New York Herald, 12/22/1864.
“Come on now”: Ibid.
“We moved up”: Tomlinson, “Dear Friends,” 174.
“grinding out the shot”: Swedberg, Three Years, 234–35.
“I ordered my bugler”: Hamilton, Recollections, 163.
“Away we went”: McKeever, “Atlanta to the Sea,” WRS.
“landed lengthwise”: National Tribune, 4/9/1891.
“At the word of command”: National Tribune, 2/12/1891.
“We could see an officer”: National Tribune, 5/17/1883.
“Now for a name”: OR 44:392.
“had to form”: Robertson, Michigan in the War, 712.
“fog and smoke”: National Tribune, 11/17/1887.
“was knocked from his horse”: OR 44:397.
“I was glad I did not kill him”: Quoted in Lee, “Tangling with Kilcavalry,” 175.
“and pumped their Spencers”: 92nd Illinois Volunteers, 191.
“I’m shot”: Toledo Daily Blade, 1/24/1865.
“He never spoke”: More, Soldier Boy, 308.
“made several counter-charges”: OR 44:365.
“Col. Heath”: National Tribune, 9/20/1893.
“They rode over”: New York Herald, 12/28/1864.
“The charge by our cavalry”: Johnson, “March to the Sea,” 327.
“had to retreat”: Miller, Diary, IHS.
“Between us and Waynesboro”: National Tribune, Nov. 26, 1903.
“flanks [were] so far extended”: OR 44:365.
“No body of men”: OR 44:380.
“moved rapidly”: National Tribune, Nov. 26, 1903.
“our whole line”: Miller, “We Scattered,” 48.
“enjoyed the sweetest draught”: Jordan, “Civil War Letters,” PAH.
“whipped”: Lancaster Daily Evening Express, 1/3/1865.
“Through the streets”: National Tribune, 11/26/1903.
“were so warmly pressed”: OR 44:410.
“Kilpatrick stopped”: National Tribune, 4/15/1920.
“rushing around like a child”: National Tribune, 11/26/1903.
“I seen one old Reb”: Miller, Diary, IHS.
“woman [who] was kneeling”: McNeil, Personal Recollections, 62.
“amused themselves”: Lancaster Daily Evening Express, 1/3/1865.
“They made me play”: Quoted in Lee, “Tangling with Kilcavalry,” 175.
“alive with women”: Miller, Diary, IHS.
“as there was no minister”: Atlanta Constitution, 5/16/1926.
“For the memory”: OR 44:627.
“upwards of 200”: OR 44:635.
“the rebel cavalry”: Woodard, Civil War Letters, 24.
“A cavalry fight”: Angle, Three Years, 345.
CHAPTER 19. “SPLENDID SIGHT TO SEE COTTON GINS BURN”
“No trouble”: Carter, Story, 309.
“entering the swampy country”: Lancaster Daily Evening Express, 1/3/1865.
“Good water”: Berkenes, Private William Boddy, 157.
“receive every attention”: OR 44:635.
“Kilpatrick is the most vain”: Angle, Three Years, 348.
“Two or three plantations”: Emmons, Diaries, UIA.
“All our bed clothes”: Rosenow, Pen Pictures, 110.
“The number of negroes”: Emmons, Diaries, UIA.
“They were a motley crowd”: McCain, Soldier’s Diary, 43.
“However they do not”: Emmons, Diaries, UIA.
“Streams or water swamps”: Trego, Diary, CHI.
“much of the road”: Boyle, Soldiers True, 267.
“The wagons often get stuck”: Wagoner, “From Wauhatchie,” 123.
“scarce”: Johnson, “‘Make a Preacher Swear, ’” 35.
“sweet potatoes”: Chapman, “Civil War Diary,” 105.
“Stop at house”: Morrow, Diary, MHI.
“three foraging teams”: OR 44:323.
“Uncultivated land”: Trowbridge, Papers, UMC.
“such fires”: OR 44:633.
“Seen far in advance”: Fleharty, Our Regiment, 121.
“Trampled by day”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.
“After considerable maneuvering”: Jackson, Colonel’s Diary, 170.
“of course was pleasant”: Brockman, “John Van Duser Diary,” 232.
“concluded that they”: Clark, Downing’s Civil War, 234.
“We got a number”: Christie, Family Papers, MHS.
“tied by thumbs”: Jamison, Recollections, 285.
“splendid sight”: McMillan, Papers, WHS.
“Sat waiting”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 144–45.
“we must move in concert”: OR 44:628.
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nbsp; “seemed to favor us”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:193.
“Negroes swarmed to us”: Kellogg, Army Life, 332.
“a negro on the place”: Trimble, Ninety-third Regiment, 149.
“gentle Milly”: Kellogg, Army Life, 332.
“have kept the enemy”: Augusta Daily Chronicle & Sentinel, 12/7/1864.
“Sherman’s campaign”: Quoted in Philadelphia Inquirer, 12/9/1864.
“We are…hopeful”: Miers, Rebel War Clerk’s Diary, 456.
“Before going into camp”/“There is nothing new”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.
“Were delayed much”: OR 44:318.
“Stopped at the home”: Noble, Papers, UMB.
“woman under such a trying ordeal”: Ross, Diary, ALL.
“Yam, yam, yam”: Emmons, Diaries, UIA.
“the worst of swamp water”: Fahnestock, Diary, KNP.
“waiting for a long swamp”: OR 44:275.
“We are on what”: Wagoner, “From Wauhatchie,” 123.
“I got a rebel paper”: Miller, Diary, IHS.
“make a good deal of smoke”: OR 44:647.
“covered with blood”: National Tribune, 5/24/1883.
“that her children could say”: Kellogg, Army Life, 25.
“There is a considerable”: Daniels, Diary, HL.
“As we are performing”: Sharland, Knapsack Notes, 41.
“plenty of sweet potatoes”: Clark, Downing’s Civil War, 235.
“danger of having”: Cryder and Stanley, “War for the Union,” 61.
“the inevitable Yankee”: Pittenger, Diary, OHS.
“I have been dividing”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 148.
“100 horses”: OR 44:638.
“in order to keep you”: OR 44:647.
“I used to be”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 150.
“When we got there”: Corbin, Star for Patriotism, 160.
“While they were out”: Utterback, Diary, SHI.
“Upon arriving at the river”: OR 44:120.
“press well on the enemy’s left”: OR 44:934.
“all that could be”: OR 44:931.
“Since the last annual message”: Quoted in Basler, Collected Works, 8:148, 154.
“Well I’ll be hanged”: Quoted in Marszalek, Sherman’s March, 102–3.
“I have no good news”: Quoted in Basler, Collected Works, 8:148, 154.
“Draw saber”: McKeever, “Atlanta to the Sea,” WRS.
“He is very proud”: Sloan, Diary, TSL.
“bespattered with mud”: Otto, “Civil War Memoirs,” WHS.
“badly obstructed”: OR 44:181.
“We were aroused at 11:30”: Hight and Stormont, Fifty-eighth Regiment, 430.